CHÂTEAU DE SURONDE

You have to cross the Loire, pass Rochefort and find Chaume, a small hamlet clinging to the hillside. Then we understand that the 6 hectares of the Domaine are planted with vines from 15 to 70 years old (exclusively Chenin) with a few shy Sauvignon vines In the Middle Ages, the first winegrowers, the monks who cleared the land at the origin of the Appellation, paid as rent to the lords who owned the land, "the best quarters of the harvest, hanging on the reverse side of the hillside facing south". The custom is still in force on the small terroir of the Quarts de Chaume - only 47 hectares.